Name(s): Date: ________14-07-21_______________

PASSIVE VOICE PRACTICE: TECHNOLOGY.

PART 1: Passive voice in past simple:
Object | was/were | participle | by (subject).

Examples:
a. Facebook was founded by Mark Zuckerberg in 2004.
b. Mobile phone apps were introduced by Apple.
c. Tetris was created in Russia.

Exercise: Use the nouns and verbs below to write sentences in passive voice in past simple:
1. Mario Bros music / compose. / Mario Bros music was composed by koji kondo
2. First laptop video game / design. / The first laptop video game was designed in 1971
3. The iPhone / introduce. / The first iPhone was presented on June 29, 2007
4. 3D video games / launch. / The first 3D video games were launched on 1980

PART 2: Passive voice in present simple:

Object | is/are | participle | by (subject).

Examples:
a. 60% of video games are played by men, and 40% by women.
b. Nearly 75 trillion emails are sent every year.
c. Over 40 million questions are answered by Google every second.

Exercise: Use the nouns and verbs below to write sentences in passive voice in present simple:
1. Instagram pictures/upload every minute. / Millions of Instagram pictures are uploaded every minute
2. Tweets / post every day. / 656 Million of tweets are posted every day
3. Songs / download every month. / Millions of songs are downloaded every day
4. # video games / sell every day. / Millions of video games are sold every day

PART 3: Passive voice for possibility or prediction

of the future.
Object | can/will | be | participle | by (subject).

Examples:
a. Too much time can be wasted on social networking sites. CA WI
b. In the future, AI will be used by almost every single person in their lives. N LL
c. Learning activities in class can be maximized with the use of phones.

Exercise: Use can and will to write some possibilities/future predictions about some video games you know.
1. Grand thef auto 6 can be the best-selling video game in the future.
2. Teslasuit is a suit that can be transmitting the sensations of the virtual world of video games to the human body.
3. The video game Uncharted will release its film in February 2022
4. The video game Fullmetal Alchemist will celebrate its 20th anniversary with a new game for iOS and Android